Ayurvedic Gut Shots Recipes
Gut shots are a liquid fire starter for your digestion. Once you have your homemade gut shots stored in fancy glass jars in your fridge, you’ll want to pour an ounce into a shot glass. This elixir you custom design to your tastes, to the season, and to your constitution. Fermented foods breed themselves. Once […]
Doshas, Koshas, Chakras, and Cellular Memory + Favorite Smoothie Recipe
Sacred Anatomy and Smoothies In this episode: I answer a listener question: What is your favorite smoothie recipe? Interview with Dr. Claudia Welch on sacred anatomy and cellular memory Interview Vanessa on her experience in Yoga Health Coaching What is your favorite smoothie recipe? I mention: Eating locally and seasonally The importance of food combining […]
Raw Foods Ayurveda vs. Traditional Ayurveda
Raw or Cooked Ayurveda First off, press play and watch my silly cartoon. Vatas can’t go raw. Or can they? In yoga and Ayurveda circles there can be an unfriendly, and sometimes uninformed bias against raw or living foods. One of the main arguments is that raw food creates a vata imbalance. And I agree, […]
6 tips for the thick of Winter
Before the heavy slow energy of winter sucks you into the black hole of lethargy wake up and move for 20 minutes upon arising. If you tend to get chunky in winter, don’t wander too far into grain land. Use spirulina for protein. Have a broth-based soup for dinner with flax crackers. Switch your oatmeal […]
Raw Corn Tacos
I keep eating these and thought you might enjoy them too. They take about 5 minutes to make – perfect for end of summer. Perfect for those transitioning to a living foods diet (out of a pranically -dead foods diet). What you need: 3 sprouted corn tortillas (check fridge at Wholefoods) some creamy dressing […]
Raising kids with Doshic Awareness
I had a great conversation with Melanie Sachs, author of Ayurvedic Spa and Ayurvedic Beauty Care about raising families with holistic wisdom. Here is a quick audio: sachs_doshas The beauty of raising children with Ayurvedic awareness, as opposed to general holistic knowledge is primarily language. Sanskrit happens to have evolved in an intentional naming of […]